What impact will the Suez Canal have concerning passage of ships through an area of disturbance that acts like the Wild West. When will insurance carriers say enough is enough. When will shipping lines just say the risk of life is not worth the savings of using this water way?

Raise the Bridge or Lower the River?

For the ports of NY and NJ to remain competitive in the super container vessels age we will have to either raise the bridges or lower the river by dredging in order to accommodate the larger vessels. As we move the ships further up into the Atlantic Ocean Ports and Gulf Ports we start to see some new issues arising in doing business in the US. Among the biggest are our highway and waterway infrastructure.

Our business model was developed 35 years ago, and still holds true to be a successful model today. The model was based on how a company selects the motor carrier it puts it's product on. I was sharing some space in one of our customers facility's to operate my business, the arrangement was for our company to run his shipping dock as well as insuring that his product was going on the best carrier for price and service.